"The bird is as its name suggests", the spoon-billed sandpiper is naturally cute, it has a small mouth like a spoon, and it always swings its small head from side to side when foraging.
Spoon-billed sandpipers are small waders, only 14-16 cm long, with the exception of the white belly, the color of the feathers is dark, and the overall feeling is similar to that of a sparrow. The mouth of the spoon-billed sandpiper is flattened spoon-shaped, and when the tide is low, it likes to feed in the small puddles on the beach, probe the spoon-like mouth into the muddy water, shake its head left and right, and use the wide flat mouth to filter out small fish, shrimp, sand silkworms, etc. from the water, full of cuteness.
Their cuteness is not only in the shape of the mouth. As a dress-up bird, the spoon-billed sandpiper disguises itself in red during the breeding season to attract the opposite sex to mate with it. However , they breed mainly in the tundra of northeastern Russia , where it is rare to witness their feathers. The spoon-billed sandpipers that we see in China are mostly gray and white.
Spoon-billed sandpipers are extremely demanding on breeding grounds, breeding almost exclusively in the coastal tundra zone in northeastern Siberia, Russia, leaving their birthplace around August every year, flying over the Arctic Ocean, The Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, heading to East and Southeast Asia for winter, and arriving in September and October in Jiangsu Yancheng Dongtai Tiaozi Wetland for temporary repair. This period is the best time for bird watchers to observe spoon-billed sandpipers. They then fly south to spend the winter in warmer Southeast Asia.